by rss feed | Dec 13, 2020 | artificial embryos, chromatin, H3.3, histone H1, histones cancer, Nature publication fees, News Feeds, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, the Niche, Weekend Reads
Today’s The Niche recommended weekly reads post includes both primary papers and also a few media pieces. I’m especially interested in the first piece on making more complex embryo-like structures from ES cells. This is a long way from just making embryoid...
by rss feed | Nov 11, 2020 | bioethics, blogging, blogging bioethics, blogging dilemmas, News Feeds, Patients, stem cell blog, the Niche
After all this time writing on The Niche here since 2010, I still haven’t entirely resolved certain blogging dilemmas including when a patient discloses something. It’s kind of a jungle out there on the internet. What kinds of tough blogging dilemmas do I...
by rss feed | Nov 11, 2020 | bioethics, blogging, blogging bioethics, blogging dilemmas, News Feeds, Patients, stem cell blog, the Niche
After all this time writing on The Niche here since 2010, I still haven’t entirely resolved certain blogging dilemmas including when a patient discloses something. It’s kind of a jungle out there on the internet. What kinds of tough blogging dilemmas do I...
by rss feed | Sep 28, 2020 | Brian R. Davis, CFTR mutation, CRISPR, CRISPR for Cystic Fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis, Francis Collins, gene editing, Lap-Chee Tsui, News Feeds, Nicholas E. King, Ricki Lewis, scRNA-Seq, Stem cells for cystic fibrosis, the Niche
Drugs that restore the shape of the errant protein behind cystic fibrosis (CF) have, over the past eight years, helped the majority of patients, who have certain mutations. Gene-corrected stem cells might offer a “mutation agnostic” option to CF. CF results from a...